Ai2, founded by Paul Allen, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.
About the role
To thrive as a Research Engineer at Ai2, you'll bring a blend of deep technical expertise and a collaborative, self-directed mindset. You have extensive experience with deep learning and/or foundation models — whether through a PhD in ML or equivalent hands-on industry work. You're a curious, agile engineer who can generate ideas, design experiments, and implement them in Python against real AI systems.
What they're looking for
- 8 years of industry experience w 4+ years of ML infrastructure experience — data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
- Experience with end-to-end model development — dataset construction, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, profiling, and monitoring
- Familiarity with modern model architectures — including LLMs (MoEs, long-context models), vision-language models (e.g., Molmo, LLaVA), and experience training and evaluating both
- Agentic systems knowledge — tools, memory, and long-running workflows
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — performant, scalable systems and confident debugging
- Proficiency in Python and a major ML framework (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow), with the flexibility to pick up new tools as needed
More about this role
To thrive as a Research Engineer at Ai2, you'll bring a blend of deep technical expertise and a collaborative, self-directed mindset. You have extensive experience with deep learning and/or foundation models — whether through a PhD in ML or equivalent hands-on industry work. You're a curious, agile engineer who can generate ideas, design experiments, and implement them in Python against real AI systems. You communicate research insights clearly to technical stakeholders, and you're energized by working with strong contributors toward shared, ambitious goals.
As a Research Engineer on the team, you'll be a core member responsible for training Ai2's flagship open models (e.g. Olmo, Molmo, and beyond). From system design to experiment release, you'll own end-to-end delivery while collaborating closely with research and engineering colleagues to push the boundaries of open model research.
We are a non-profit AI institute focused on developing foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world positive impact through large-scale open models, data, and artifacts (e.g., Olmo , Tulu , Molmo , FlexOlmo ). Balancing academic freedom with corporate-level scale ( read about our new...
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